Anglican Church

English-identified despite her Irish birth and cosmopolitan interests, and presumably white, she came from the intelligentsia although her family was very poor. By the time of her ninety-fifth birthday, after nearly forty years residence in...

EW was born into the rising English urban middle class, but her husband, who spent much time among the upper classes, later wrote that both he and she were obscure Persons of low Degree.

After marriage and especially as help became more difficult to get, DW cooked, sewed, and sometimes picked fruit for sale. She partnered her husband at farming at their several Suffolk farms and was an indefatigable...

DW first became acurely aware of the burden of tithe-paying on farmers shortly after the birth of her first child. She felt the injustice of this tax, levied on the land but not on other...

DW went on to join a London rally in June 1936 against the bill which became the Tithe Act (which arranged for the tithe income of the Church of England to be otherwise supplied, and...

DW 's anti-tithing campaign put her in the tradition of seventeenth-century writers like Mary Cary , Margaret Fell , and innumerable others; but whereas they condemned the Church of England for doctrinal reasons and in...

She dated her prefatory material February 1934.She explains in her second chapter the background to this war: the ancient custom of devoting one tenth of each year's produce to religious purposes. From the...

DW writes as from the field of battle, reporting developments which are still ongoing. She exhibits shrewd and informed understanding of farm economics and church economics. She convincingly depicts both the law and the Church...

But the memory of her political (anti-tithing) activity has not always been favourable. In 1997 Adrian Brink (head of one of her publishers, the Lutterworth Press ) wrote that abolishing tithes had to some extent...

Tom, who felt the call to the ministry as a captain in the Merchant Navy , and is husband to the protagonist, Mary Barry, is unquestioningly, effortlessly good and generous. (He performs miracles preserving the...

She was deeply familiar with Victorian religious crisis. Brought up in her mother's faith, Huguenot-descended protestantism, while living through her father's successive shifts of belief and witnessing their negative impact on his family and his...

The contemporary story features a self-educated working-class intellectual and freethinker whose characterisation draws on many strands of thought of the day. Drawn after the model of self-made men such as Daniel Macmillan , William Lovett

She described it as a vision of a Church of England recreated from within, with a rebel, and not—as in Robert Elsmere—an exile, for a hero. The eponymous protagonist passionately and eloquently defends...

Thomas Arnold (father of the future MAW ) abandoned Roman Catholicism and returned to the Church of England .

ALW converted from the Society of Friends to Anglicanism (with her parents' consent); she was baptised into the Church of England at St Martin's Church, Winnall, near Winchester in Hampshire.